English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Lambs Down

Early-attested site in the Parish of Buckfastleigh

Etymology

The singular form shows that we have to do with a 13th cent. owner rather than with the animal. For the spellings with o , cf. Lamerton supra 149, Lambscombe infra 345.

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement